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12-letter words containing m, e, t, a, s

  • remonstrance — an act or instance of remonstrating.
  • reserve team — a second team of a sports club, such as a football club, made up of emerging and young players
  • rheumatismal — of or relating to rheumatism
  • roman strike — a striking mechanism of c1700, giving the equivalent in tones of Roman numerals, a bell of one pitch striking once for each number I, a bell of another pitch striking once for V, twice for X.
  • rubber stamp — handheld printing tool
  • rubber-stamp — to imprint with a rubber stamp.
  • sabermetrics — (used with a singular verb) the computerized measurement of baseball statistics.
  • sacramentals — of, relating to, or of the nature of a sacrament, especially the sacrament of the Eucharist.
  • sacramentary — a sacramentarian
  • safety match — a match designed to ignite only when rubbed on a specially prepared surface.
  • saint jerome — Saint (Eusebius Hieronymus) a.d. c340–420, Christian ascetic and Biblical scholar: chief preparer of the Vulgate version of the Bible.
  • saint-mihiel — a town in NE France, on the Meuse River, NW of Nancy: captured by American forces 1918.
  • salmon steak — a thick slice of salmon
  • saltpetreman — a supplier of saltpetre
  • sample point — a possible result of an experiment, represented as a point.
  • san clemente — a town in S California.
  • satsuma ware — a Japanese pottery from Kyushu, first produced in the early 17th century and after 1800 having a crackle glaze and overglaze polychrome enameling and gilding.
  • sausage meat — minced and processed pork
  • saw palmetto — a shrublike palmetto, Serenoa repens, of the palm family, native to the southern U.S., having green or blue leafstalks set with spiny teeth.
  • scapegoatism — the act or practice of assigning blame or failure to another, as to deflect attention or responsibility away from oneself.
  • scene master — (on a switchboard) a master switch that controls several lighting circuits.
  • schoolmaster — a man who presides over or teaches in a school.
  • scitamineous — of or relating to the Scitimanae order of plants, which includes the ginger and banana plants
  • sea milkwort — a maritime plant, Glaux maritima, having small, pinkish-white flowers.
  • sectarianism — sectarian spirit or tendencies; excessive devotion to a particular sect, especially in religion.
  • section mark — section (def 16).
  • sectionalism — excessive regard for sectional or local interests; regional or local spirit, prejudice, etc.
  • sedimentable — capable of forming sediment
  • segmentalize — to make segmentalized.
  • segmentation — division into segments.
  • seismonastic — of or relating to seismonasty
  • self-mastery — self-control.
  • semantic web — an extension of the World Wide Web in which data is structured and XML-tagged on the basis of its meaning or content, so that computers can process and integrate the information without human intervention: the semantic Web acting as a global database or huge brain.
  • semantically — of, relating to, or arising from the different meanings of words or other symbols: semantic change; semantic confusion.
  • semi-dormant — lying asleep or as if asleep; inactive, as in sleep; torpid: The lecturer's sudden shout woke the dormant audience.
  • semi-trailer — Also called semi. a detachable trailer for hauling freight, with wheels at the rear end, the forward end being supported by the rear of a truck tractor when attached. Compare full trailer.
  • semiabstract — of or relating to art or sculpture which is abstract but in which the subject can still be recognized
  • semiattached — partially attached; semidetached.
  • semiautonomy — the quality or state of being semiautonomous.
  • semibasement — a basement partly above ground, as in a house built on a slope.
  • semicomatose — a light coma from which a person can be roused.
  • semidetached — partly detached.
  • semidiameter — half of a diameter; radius.
  • semidominant — producing an intermediate, heterozygous phenotype
  • semifinalist — a participant or one qualified to participate in a semifinal.
  • semifloating — noting or pertaining to a driving axle of an automobile or the like, the inner end of which is carried by the differential gear and the outer end of which is keyed to a wheel supported by the axle housing.
  • semiliterate — a person who is semiliterate.
  • semimetallic — partially metallic; of the nature of a semi-metal
  • semimonastic — somewhat monastic; monastic in certain respects
  • semimystical — somewhat mystical; having a mystical quality to a partial degree
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